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Nature Partner Journals expand in China with npj Quantum Materials, partnered with Nanjing University

London | Shanghai, 1 March 2016

Nature Publishing Group (NPG), part of Springer Nature, will partner with Nanjing University in publishing npj Quantum Materials, a new addition to Nature Partner Journals. This new series of online open access journals is published by NPG, in collaboration with world renowned international partners. Today, both partners signed an agreement on co-publishing the new journal at the university’s campus in Nanjing.

Quantum materials is one of the most widely studied fields of physical science due to the diversity of materials and phenomena available for study. It holds a great significance in fundamental research and has promising application prospects. However, there are currently no journals worldwide specializing in quantum materials especially with so wide a coverage ranging from fundamental properties, to synthesis/fabrication and all the way to devices.

npj Quantum Materials will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed original research covering quantum materials, their fundamental properties, fabrication and applications, as well as reviews, correspondences, meeting reports, etc. to highlight the latest development of quantum materials. The new journal fits well into an existing portfolio of Nature journals in physics, materials sciences and nanotechnology, including Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, and Nature Communications.

“We have a successful track record of publishing partnership with Chinese academic institutions and are bringing such expertise to the Nature Partner Journals series to meet the need for high-quality, peer-reviewed open access publications,” said Steven Inchcoombe, Managing Director and President of Nature Publishing Group. “Such cooperation is gaining momentum in China as the country has significantly enhanced its standing in the global scientific community. Looking forward, we will definitely see more Nature Partner Journals launched with China-based partners.”

Prof. Dingyu Xing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of the Collaborative Innovation Centre of Advanced Microstructures (CICAM) said, “By forging this landmark partnership with Springer Nature, we are taking a key step toward publishing a high-impact international physics journal based in China. We look forward to working closely with Springer Nature to build up an open access platform that encourages and facilitates collaboration of different disciplines in the study of quantum materials.” The new journal was co-sponsored by CICAM and Nanjing University.

Prof. Steven Kivelson and Prof. Sang-Wook Cheong have been appointed as co-editors-in-chief for the new journal.

Prof. Kivelson is an Endowed Prabhu Goel Family Professor of Physics at Stanford and a member of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint institute of SLAC and Stanford. As a condensed matter theorist, he mainly focuses his research on theoretical aspects of strongly correlated electron systems. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1979 and was previously a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA. Kivelson was elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2010.

A Korean American condensed matters and materials scientist at Rutgers University, Prof. Cheong concentrates on the synthesis and experimental investigations of unconventional materials, with a particular focus on multiferroic materials. He has made ground-breaking contributions to the research field of enhanced physical functionalities in complex materials originating from collective correlations and collective phase transitions, such as colossal magnetoresistive and colossal magnetoelectric effects in complex oxides. He is the Board of Governors Professor of Physics with Rutgers University.

All Nature Partner Journals are committed to delivering high-quality, peer-reviewed original research as well as timely overview/review articles and editorials, adhering to a modified set of Nature editorial standards. Licensed under the CC BY license, the journals allow all research to be freely available to anyone upon publication.

Prior to signing npj Quantum Materials with Nanjing University, Springer Nature has partnered respectively with one research institute and two universities in publishing three Nature Partner Journals in China.

npj Quantum Materials will open for submissions in April 2016. More information on the Nature Partner Journal programme can be found here.


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Amy Bourke-Waite
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Nature Publishing Group/Palgrave Macmillan
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Zhang Li
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